I've got an Ultra Enterprise-2 w/ a pair of 300 MHz blackbirds. It's got 2GB of RAM plus some UltraSCSI-3 SCA disks in it. Also has Creator3D FFB SBUS graphic adapter in it. I just wish this machine was as quick as my old P4 laptop..._________________Cheers,
Alex.

I've got an Ultra Enterprise-2 w/ a pair of 300 MHz blackbirds. It's got 2GB of RAM plus some UltraSCSI-3 SCA disks in it. Also has Creator3D FFB SBUS graphic adapter in it. I just wish this machine was as quick as my old P4 laptop...

Today, I collected a Sunblade 2000 and an Sun Ultra-60. I'm currently setting up the 'blade._________________Cheers,
Alex.

It's currently my media server. I have about 50GB of stuff on it so if something happens to it, I'm not gonna be too happy.

You have a pair of disks. I'd strongly recommend turning them into a RAID10 disk, so that if one disk fails, you can swap it out for a replacement.
I like RAID disks a lot. I recently had to "hot-swap" a FC-AL disk as it was running a bit too slow, needed absolutely no down-time at all, just removed it from the array, removed it from the host adapter and then put in the other disk, registered it and it all worked, at the same time I was running two different emerges. SPARC64 rules, if it's a fast one like mine._________________Cheers,
Alex.

I've just got a sunfire v880 with 4 sparc III+ ch (cheetah) cpu's, 8 gig ram, 6 fibrechannel hdd's with 36 gig each and one scsi disc with 18 gig for the operating system
i've installed gentoo on it (sparc 64 2.6.36-gentoo-r5)
this was a hell of a work
maybe i'll expand this machine to 8 ultrasparc III cpu's and 16 gig ram (when there is a good offer on ebay and when i've got enough money )
my lovely small device got the nickname "sonnenfeuer" wich is german for sunfire

I've had a Netra X1 kicking around for ages. It was never working when I got it, so I kind of neglected it. I've been having some difficulties setting up some other 1U random boxes I've got laying around as a firewall / gateway, when I stumbled across this little wonder again. Of course, upon powering it up for the first time in ages, it booted the old Solaris 5.8 OS without difficulties. I couldn't get it to boot Solaris for the life of me when I got it years ago.

Anyhow after finding one guide thanks to google which assisted in cd booting the Netra X1, I was introduced to installing Gentoo over a Serial Terminal (the Lights Out Management port). Interesting experience, but I must say, much easier than I thought. It was a bit of a hassle, as the serial terminal appeared to timeout after a certain point of inactivity, causing me to have to re-start from where I left off, but once I got the base system installed with SSH, it's been a breeze. I must say after all the problems I've had with other x86 servers, it was very relieving to use this older hardware and have it work almost flawlessly so far.

Now it is definitely slow at compiling things. I'm updating the system now, then proceeding with the necessary services like dhcp and iptables, but it's probably going to take a few more hours for that to finish. I've been looking for ways to speed things up, but haven't had much luck yet. Other than that, it seems to be running great.

Linux 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird) @ 400MHz
1024MB PC133 ECC RAM
2x 20GB Seagate ATA-133_________________"Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be, but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean." ~Bob Marley

It used to have OpenSolaris on it, until the original drive died. It was a lot of work getting this running again. I had to find some drives, and they were formatted with 520-byte sectors when I got them. I'm guessing they were Clariion vault drives originally.

I have no idea what I'm going to use this for at the moment... right now it's compiling a few hundred things, if it survives that burn in process I'll figure something out.

I used to have an UltraSparc 10 with a Sun 20" monitor, but after the monitor broke down, I used the machine less and less, one of the reasons was the broken IDE and I used nfs mounts as it was faster, used distcc to compile things (back in those days distcc was run no matter if a package could be built with it or not, so you needed to disable distcc manually). During my last move, I had to ditch quite a lot of old computer stuff, sadly the Sparc was among those things, I really hope that one of the university student noticed the machine and took it.

I still have my hard drive with Sparc Gentoo installed, have been thinking of running a qemu instance, but I suspect the kernel I have will not work in qemu.

Even in modern times this would make an excellent SQL backend server, or even a very reliable webserver._________________Was it cat-5 or cat-6? Well I dunno, but I do know that I need a new LCD screen on my laptop now.